Please make MP easier to use by utilising the coloured buttons.
For example, on the TV Guide I would like to press the Red button to schedule recording of the highlighted programme, or the Yellow button to set an Alert for the highlighted programme.
In the Music section, I would like to be able to press the Green button to add the selected song to the current playlist and when viewing the playlist, I would like to be able to press the Red button to remove a song from the playlist. I've been using MP for a while but I'm still at a loss how to add and remove songs from the playlist. It's just not that user-friendly at the moment.
On some screens, you can even make MP more user-friendly by showing what each coloured button does at the top, as some set-top boxes do, eg:
Red - Record Green - Info Yellow - Alert Blue - IMDB
Doing this makes it far easier for people to know which button does what and also can help avoid having to navigate through menus to do a simple function.
I also believe the current off the side menus are not that user-friendly as they have a tendency to pop-up when the user accidentally presses left or right when they didn't mean to, and it's not that obvious which direction key needs to be pressed to close them again, so they can irritate and slow down the user when just trying to do a simple operation. I think having to press a key to bring up a menu and then either being able to close it by pressing the same key, or having an "exit" option on the menu would be more user-friendly.
I hope the team will seriously consider my suggestions as I truly believe they will enhance MP and make it more accessible.
For example, on the TV Guide I would like to press the Red button to schedule recording of the highlighted programme, or the Yellow button to set an Alert for the highlighted programme.
In the Music section, I would like to be able to press the Green button to add the selected song to the current playlist and when viewing the playlist, I would like to be able to press the Red button to remove a song from the playlist. I've been using MP for a while but I'm still at a loss how to add and remove songs from the playlist. It's just not that user-friendly at the moment.
On some screens, you can even make MP more user-friendly by showing what each coloured button does at the top, as some set-top boxes do, eg:
Red - Record Green - Info Yellow - Alert Blue - IMDB
Doing this makes it far easier for people to know which button does what and also can help avoid having to navigate through menus to do a simple function.
I also believe the current off the side menus are not that user-friendly as they have a tendency to pop-up when the user accidentally presses left or right when they didn't mean to, and it's not that obvious which direction key needs to be pressed to close them again, so they can irritate and slow down the user when just trying to do a simple operation. I think having to press a key to bring up a menu and then either being able to close it by pressing the same key, or having an "exit" option on the menu would be more user-friendly.
I hope the team will seriously consider my suggestions as I truly believe they will enhance MP and make it more accessible.